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  • Major survey shows gun ownership declining (GSS, Univ of Chicago NORC)

    03/09/2015 6:21:27 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 58 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Mar 9, 2015 6:27 PM EDT | Emily Swanson
    The number of Americans who live in a household with at least one gun is lower than it’s ever been, according to a major American trend survey that finds the decline in gun ownership is paralleled by a reduction in the number of Americans who hunt. According to the latest General Social Survey, 32 percent of Americans either own a firearm themselves or live with someone who does, which ties a record low set in 2010. That’s a significant decline since the late 1970s and early 1980s, when about half of Americans told researchers there was a gun in their...